You can find previous written qualifying exams on this page, with partial solutions written by some students and some professors. Exam information and all past exams can be found here on the departmental website. Here are our solutions to past exams.
- Algebra – Companion courses 510ab
- Analysis – Companion course 525a
- PDE – Companion course 555a
- Applied Probability – Companion course 505a
- Topology – Companion course 540
- Deprecated Exams (Pre-Fall 2024)
Please help out future test-takers by emailing your solutions to ifeng@usc.edu.
Faculty gets a list of exam results before the letters are available—so if you’re in touch with your advisor, you may be able to learn of your results a few days early. For 2018–2020, here is a list of when the exams were taken and when the results were announced:
- 2018 Spring
- Exams: 01/08–01/13
- Results: 01/29 (16 days)
- 2018 Fall
- Exams: 08/13–08/17
- Results: 08/30 (13 days)
- 2019 Spring
- Exams: 01/07–01/11
- Results: 01/24 (13 days)
- 2019 Fall
- Exams: 08/19–08/24
- Results: 09/13 (20 days)
- 2020 Spring
- Exams: 01/13–01/18
- Results: 01/29 (11 days)
- 2020 Fall
- Exams: 09/14–09/18
- Results: 09/29 (12+ days)
Last Update: Aug 31, 2024
